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00:00What makes the perfect gaming monitor? There are obviously tons of options to play with.
00:04These are all OLED models from Asus ROG. We've had 48s, 42s, 27, 49 inches, but we haven't
00:12had a 32 inch, which is where this guy comes in. The new ROG, let me get this right, PG32UCDM.
00:21The world's first 32 inch, 4K, 240 hertz, OLED gaming monitor. And it is nuts.
00:30Now I have been told there's only one of these monitors here at Gamescom, so I probably shouldn't
00:35auction it off. So ROG are showing off everything from Wi-Fi 7 routers to these insane desktop
00:41builds, but I'm here for this and also this. The 32 inch on my left and 34 inch ultra wide
00:47on my right are the two brand new monitors being unveiled here at Gamescom. Both 240
00:52hertz OLEDs, all of the key differences are the 34 is quad HD ultra wide rather than 4K
00:5716 by 9. It also uses a W OLED panel rather than QD OLED, so it can actually get a little
01:03bit brighter. It's also matte rather than glossy and it will be a touch cheaper and
01:07also come out a little bit sooner. I'll come back to this in a second. But for me, it's
01:11this one I'm most excited about because it does everything but make you breakfast in
01:15the morning. 4K, 240 hertz refresh rate with a 0.03 millisecond greater gray response time
01:22and also up to 1000 nits of brightness. It uses a new custom graphene heatsink, so unlike
01:28some rival OLEDs, there's no active fan whirring away at the back and it also helps prevent
01:33burn in and maintain the higher brightness. Speaking of which, for this QD OLED panel,
01:38the HDR brightness tops out at 1000 nits on a 3% window. Although since sustained full
01:43screen brightness tops out at around 250 nits, this still does only hit the display HDR true
01:48black 400 standard. I was talking to my buddy Vincent about this and how these ratings can
01:53be a little bit misleading, but I think that's a conversation for another video. ROG have
01:57also added their uniform brightness feature because normally with OLEDs like this, if
02:02you take a small bright window and then full screen it, the whole display dims. It can't
02:06cope with that level of brightness across the whole panel. Whereas with uniform brightness
02:10turned on, it stays, well, uniform. It stays the same, which is a much nicer experience.
02:15It's also worth mentioning that while the W OLED panel in the 34 inch can get a little
02:20bit brighter, we're talking 1300 nits versus 1000, the benefit I'm told of the QD OLED
02:25on the 32 inch is better color volume and also slightly sharper text and fine detail.
02:30Compared to W OLEDs which have a white sub-pixel alongside the RGB, text can sometimes appear
02:35a bit grainy and pixelated. Although Asus do tell me that they've improved the algorithms
02:39so this should be less of an issue across all their new OLED displays.
02:43Round the back, below the fancy new heatsink and also the ROG logo, we have a very healthy
02:48range of ports. For your PC, you've got DisplayPort 1.4 with DSC or Display Stream Compression.
02:54The HDMI 2.1 is great for hooking up your PS5 or Xbox. And then we have USB-C, which
02:59is also DSC compliant and offers up to 90 watt power delivery. So if you want to output
03:04from your laptop and it maybe doesn't have an HDMI, you can use the USB-C and get the
03:08full 4K at 240 hertz. Sadly, we don't have any speakers built in, although there is a
03:13headphone jack. We also get FreeSync Premium Pro and G-Sync compatibility to help reduce
03:18screen tearing and smooth out your frame rate. And speaking of frame rate, as amazing as
03:22the 4K 240 hertz sounds, don't forget you'll need an incredibly powerful PC to hit those
03:27frame rates and actually max this guy out. And lastly, both the 32 and 34 inch have what
03:33ROG call their smart KVM switch, which essentially lets you use one set of peripherals that you
03:37plug into the monitor, like your mouse and keyboard, across two sources, like your laptop
03:42and your desktop, and you can drag files between them. Although the 32 inch only supports picture
03:47in picture mode, whereas the 34 inch ultra wide offers picture by picture, which makes
03:52a bit more sense as you have the extra screen space. I am curious though, what you guys
03:56think about glossy versus matte on an OLED display like this. The 32 inch is glossy,
04:01the 34 inch is matte, and normally I am team matte. But while it does pick up more reflections,
04:07the glossy screen really does show off the contrast and inky blacks of the OLED. But
04:11what about you, team matte or team glossy? So the ASUS ROG PG32UC-DM, which rolls off
04:17the tongue, will cost around $1,500 when it launches early next year. So there is a bit
04:22of a wait for this one. Although the 34 inch will be coming out before the end of the year,
04:26so probably around November-ish, and will cost a little bit less, around $1,200 or $1,300,
04:30although nothing's fully confirmed just yet. But the question is, which one of these would
04:35you go for? Let me know in the comments below, and also drop me a comment if you've got any
04:38questions about these. I will be reviewing this hopefully in a few months, this guy comes
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04:50review. Thank you so much for watching guys, and I'll see you next time, right here on
04:53the Tech Channel.